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THE BRECKEN RIDGE AMERICAN
THE BRECKENRIDGE AMERICAN
Published Monday, Tuesday, Wes!n--*ay, Friday aftsrnoen and
Vjnday morning by lireckenridge American Publishing Company.
114 E. Elm tti-Mt, Breckenridge, Texas.
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Breckenridge.
Texas, under act of March 3. 1879.
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W LLIAM A. MOTMANN, JR MANAGER
C. M. NALL EDITOR
EDNA MAE JENKINS CIRCULATION
Notice To The Public
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tfrvrn re ;n.
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Note in scale.
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,'usical prac-
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50 Natural power
51 Musical note.
53 Italian river.
54 Senior (abbr.)
55 Female fowl.
56 North Africa
(abbr.).
5R Go on (muix)
60 She was born
in .
61 She was the
tirst
movie star.
VERTICAL
1 Mother.
2 Heavenly body
3 Purled.
4 Screams.
5 Point (abbr.).
C Court (abbr.).
7 Air toy.
8 Blaze.
9 Fish-eating
mammals.
10 Thing.
11 l>octor (abbr.)
12 Her fame was
or inter-
national.
13 The deep.
15 Shoeking.
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23 Lo.v
tains.
24 Tiny s' 1
openir .
26 Salary.
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31 Dove's 1
32 To d) i -ic
slo* !y.
35 Deian
36 Arrest : '.
39 Sot t ri: ,i.
41 Paving
.subst:.! -e.
43 Unop i.J
flower.
45 To tear
stitches.
47 Law.
49 New r.
52 Data.
54 South C; -
lina (abbr.).
55 Laughter
sound.
57 Measure cf
area.
59 Prcposit: n.
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1938 Chevrolet Coupe — Look's like new
(kwd Rubbar
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OF TH' RECR111TIK/
POSTER ABOUT
TH" CAVALRY— IN
LATIN— THATlS
TO KEEP VOKELS
OUT/
OONT
ABOUT US. PILLOW
PANTS/ I MOPE.
OUR SNORIN WONT
ANNOV MXi WH*-E
VOU'RE. GROOMt
THEM PLUGS
COME ON,
MUD SPLASHER
GIT UP HERE/
I CANT STAND
TO SEE EVEN
A DOUGHBOY
SUFFER/
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Tuescho , October i, itMO.
"v trSritC. U. 4 FAT Off.
N^ccpa. i9«o mo server wc.
THIRTY YEARS
SOON
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Super Highway
In Texas Urged
O
Road For Trucks Is
Proposed, Texline To
Fort Worth
AUSTIN, tCfi*— A super-hifih-
,ny capable of handling truck-
oads up to 50,000 pounds between
ort Worth, Texas and the state's
lorthern boundary at Texline, is
atest proposal of Governor W.
-ee O'Daniel.
The road would lie a competitor
;or the rail line between Fort
A'orth and Denver. This would
•lot deter the project for Texans
in that area have been aroused
>ver removal of railroad general
jffices from Fort Worth to Colo-
rado.
Local road engineers decline to
hazard a guess on cost of the pro-
posed super-road. Rail distance
between Fort Worth and Texline
is 453 miles. An existing state
highway which follows the rail
route ov >rthe plains for much of
the distance is slightly longer,
484 miles. A new road on straight
ened lines probably' would join
the two places with a
link.
450-mile
With a law distributing the 50,-
000-pound load on a sufficient
number of wheels, roads of a type
lately built in the state likely
would be sufficient. Average cost
of these is $30,000 a mile. .Pres-
ent truck load limit in Texas is
7,00 pounds.
Cost of the proposed road
would depend on local conditions,
including amount of grading re-
quired, amount of drainage, avail-
ability of road materials and
underdlying soil conditions. One of
the big cost items would be ar.
adequate crossing over Canadian
river, subject frequently to floods
Allowing SI .000.000 for a bridge
there and §30.000 a miie for the
highway, its cost would be aji-
proximately $14,500,000.
The proposed super-highway
does not have the heaviest traffic-
in Texas. A count by the highway
department shows varying traffic
from 470 vehicles daily between
Texline and Dalbart to 2.300 a
day near Wichita Falls.
Heaviest traveled road in the
state is U. S. Highway 80. which
has a traffic count of 13,500 daily
between Fort .Worth and Dallas.
Potatoes Success
On North Plains
DALHART (U.R) — Interest in
Dallam county's shallow wate
irrigation belt, 35 miles northwest
of Dalhart, has been sharply la-
creased by C. A. Brown's 80-acre
field of potatoes which are going
to yield an estimated 500 pounds
per acre.
Brown, a former potato seed
grower in Colorado, came to Dal-
lam county last spring from tne
Plainview and Hereford areas
Vhere he had been raising pota-
toes.
SERIAL STORY
THIS COULD BE YOUR STORY
BY MARGUERITE GAHAGAN
eoFvmawr. tM%
NEA SBRVICB. IN&
All characters, organizations
and incidents of this serial ar?
entirely fictitious.
* * *
TESTKJUJAV. At til# cambllH
Wet
Slave Hideout Uncovered
WEST CESTER, Pa. U.R) — A
large underground cavern (which
was used for hiding fugitive slaves
as a part of the pre-Civil War
"underground railway" has been
rediscovored by workmen here.
Samuel W. Taylor near whose
property the vault was situated,
said it had been blocked up for a
half century.
WANT ADS PAY
>t r> overhl
Vem dUcuaxluK yuanic Clark.
H. I. dMU In ill*lit. Vera ha* «uc-
Mivd l> aril hia una urvpartr
tot the airport ailr. If hv do*a.
It will defeat the jiuvernor. uu old
friend of Bins Clark. Dr. Jo* to 11a
Sue Mary be anw Nick In « picket
line at the plant.
sue MART IS WATCHED
CHAPTER XX
£UE MARY felt they were
watching her. She felt that
Vera yatched her at the office,
end that Natalie watched her ev-
ery moment at the apartment.
White she was patting on clean-
tat cream before the mirror she
looked up to see Natalie reflecte:!
there, her eyes staring at Sue
Mary's face. Somehow she man-
uc'A to smile.
"I can't seem to keep powder
cn," she said pointlessly. "This
heat's terrible." But she felt
rather than saw the watchfulness
ic Natalie's answering smile.
And Joe, too, was watching her.
Tomorrow her week of grace
would be up and still she had t>6t
moved from the apartment, still
she had not broken with the VP
group.
She knew that he would wait
for her to call him and say she
had broken her word. Joe's word
was good. If he promised her to
do something he would do it, and
he expected Sue Mary to do like-
wise.
She tried not to think of what
he would believe. All her prom-
ises of love, all her plans for their
future—what would he think,
what could he think, when he
knew she had broken her word?
She had made no move to change
the situation of which he so thor-
oughly disapproved.
So she didn't call him. It was
their night to have a date, but she
didn't try to find him. She didn't
know what she could say, what
explanation she could o.Ter that
wouldn't involve him, too, in this
nightmare through which she felt
she was moving. And she didn't
hear from him.
Another week went by. The
papers carried stories of the air-
port site committee meeting and
promising to have a site selected
in a few days.
Campaign ballyhoo was mount-
ing. Governor Miller's forces em-
phasized the need' of keeping in
office a man of integrity, a man
who had safeguarded the interests
of the people in the past; a man
who saw the need of national de-
fense, and a man with a sane
view of the future.
And the party paper continued
to tear him down: continued to
stress the necessity of putting
Fritz King in office: a man who
would help the workers; who
would not permit the state money
to be spent on needless defense
expenditures, while the relief
budgc-t would be pared, and the
capitalists would benefit.
• • *
/~iUT at the Smithson factory the
picket line continued to grow.
One department had shut down
and Gull Plane announc;d it
would have to go behind schedule
unlets it got parts immediately.
Vera continued to go out with
Young Ross Clark. Kitty's eyes
were continually stormy and her
mouth tightened into a red bow
as she fled and typt-d and
watched Vera.
It was late afternoon when
Mifs Grast called Sue Mary.
"I'm sorry to do this to you at
such an hour,"' she apologized.
"But Mr. Clark is home. Sick
again. Too much worry and work.
Anyway, he wants to dictate some
notes and, he needs some papers
and you're the only one I can
send.
"You'll have to work late, but
you can take time off tomorrow.
Come back here tonight and fin
ish the work he gives you and
then sleep in tomorrow. Will you
do it?"
Sue Mary was glad to have to
work. It might take her mind
off her own problems. "Yes," she
;:aid. "Of course I'll do it, and
I really don't mind."
♦ « *
npHE big Clark house was quiet.
She had a glimpje of the din'
ing room as the butler ushe.cd her
to the library where she and Mr.
Clark would work. Candle light
flickered on the big table throw-
ing shadows on the crystal and
china and linen, and a maid in
black with a white, starched apron
and tiny cap, such as one saw in
the movies, was fixing flowers.
And in the library, old Ross Clark
munched a sandwich and sipped
a giass of milk.
"Indigestion," he said, gruffly,
and Sue Mary wondered just how
much enjoyment he got from his
fortune, when worry and respon-
sibility could make him turn into
such a heggard, gray old man.
They worked steadily, accom-
plishing much, until finally he
pushed the papers away and sank
back back in his chair.
'•We've done a good day's
work," he said. "You're no quit-
ter."
She didn't know how to answer.
As long as he was impersonal, as
her boss, she could meet him, but
when he became just a weary,
sick, old man, grateful to her for
her help, she couldn't find words
"You know my son?" he de
inanded.
"I've seen him in the office."
"Not often," he said. "Not
often. He doesn't like work. Not
our kind anyway. The new gen-
eration. We've slipped up some-
how with them. They lack what
it takes. They want life the easy
way."
He lighted a cigar and seemed
to forget her presence. Then he
said, "What about that Vera Oli-
ver—the dark-haired one? He sees
her, doesn't Jie?"
Sue Mary caught her breath.
She felt a hidden strength, an
abrupt awareness in the old man.
"I—I believe so."
"You know so. Everyone does.
He's a fool. I thought when the
governor appointed him to that
airport committee he might settle
down. He likes aviation. He ca'q
fly a plane. I thou-ht when Rus-
sell named him to that bo&id he'd
be serious. But I don't know. I
don't know—"
4l * *
TT was then that Mrs. Clark came
in the room. She was a slight
woman, her hair turning gray.
"You've worked too hard and
much too long, Ross." she said,
smoothing his hair. "You're tired,
and this young woman must be
tired as wall. If you won't spare
yourself you should at least think
of others." Her voice was low
and kind. Clark looked at her
and smiled.
"Maybe so, my dear. I guess
I have kept this young lady here
too long. We'll send her down
in the car. I'm afraid some of
ihis work must be done tonight,
too."
Sue Mary smiled at them loth.
"It's all light. I knew it had to
be done. I'll rest in the morn-
ing."
"Well, I hope someone can
rest," he said, and his wife
laughed and took Sue Mary's
arm.
"The car will be right here, my
dear." She stooped at the table
in the big hr.ll and touched a
vase of roses. "Would you like ^
these? They're from my afcrdenr"
Out in the car, speedi *~
to town, Sue Mary bui
tired face in the' fragrant .
flowers. Old Ross Clark.
his illness and age, knew hi™T
ar.d shi believed, feer^d what^..
flight -c.
But, she told herself, he has nc
idea just how far he'll go, or hovj
easily he can be led—with Vera
to do the leading and Nick th«
suggesting
(To Be Continued)
FOR QUICK RESULTS TRY WANT ADS
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FRECKLES and HIS FRIE NDS
sA/ERE YOU
RESPONSIBLE FOR
TMAT EXPLOSION?
are you a studem [
AT shadyside hloh **
Yeah/
WHY
Then I was
responsible
for rr/ 1
had a gadget
fastened id
one of your
sfark plugs i
an'
when i
stepped
on the
starter —
WHAM!
*1/
i'm rummin6
for student
Booy
president
and i'm
"rfcyiNs
not to
build good
Boy, That was the best
GAS I EVER MAD PULLED ON ^
ME ! HO - HO ! — GLAD I MET W
you, M £ GOOSEY ! WELL
SO long i
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By HAMLIN
NO SIR, MISTER WISE GUY... YOU STAND
RIGHT OUT HERE IN TH' MIDDLE OF TH
FLOOR., AWAV FROM THOSE WALLS/
YOU'VE PULLED YOUR LAST
DISAPPEARS
ACT ON
ME / iEssrac
fwow POINT TOUR FUNNY- LOOKIN'
BEARD TOWARD TH' PLACE YOUVE
1 SOT MY FRIENDS PENNED UP -
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